THE creator of dystopian anthology series Black Mirror has revealed details about the highly-anticipated third season.

Speaking to Express.co.uk at the BAFTA TV Awards, the 45-year-old writer and satirist said about the new run: “It’s mainly sort of upbeat musical effectively, a startling next direction.

“No – hopefully, kind of what you would expect and what you wouldn’t expect at the same time, if that makes sense.”

However, he was quick to add that the series did not feature a story about a prime minister this time around.

Last year there were unsavoury allegations involving David Cameron and a pig, which had bizarre parallels to an episode of Black Mirror – called The National Anthem - involving a fictional head of state blackmailed into engaging in porcine copulation on live television.

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Charlie Brooker and wife Konnie Huq at the BAFTA TV Awards

“No, we’ve got nothing involving a prime minister this time because that sort of turned out to apparently have some basis in truth. That really weirded me out,” Charlie explained.

“I had absolutely no idea at the time,” he said, before adding that if he had known about it: “Do you think I’d have bothered writing a drama about it? I’d have been out flipping screaming that into traffic!”

Chewing Gum’s writer and star Michaela Coel, who is starring in an episode of season three, also spoke about the show.

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“I’d watched both of them, I just auditioned like anyone else would really and me and [director] Joe Wright got on quite well. He’s a brilliant director, so I had the time of my life shooting.

“We did it in South Africa and it was banging. I’m literally in one scene but it was the best scene of my life.”

Michaela, who walked away with Best Female Performance in Comedy Programme tonight, is in good company with Hollywood stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Alice Eve and Gugu Mbatha-Raw also featuring in episodes.

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